Sorry I am not up to speed on your rollover. Did it roll into a creek? Everyone get out OK? If you have a thread on it, direct me there! I look forward to your build on the new 93!
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (53 Viewers)
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Sorry I am not up to speed on your rollover. Did it roll into a creek? Everyone get out OK? If you have a thread on it, direct me there! I look forward to your build on the new 93!
This weekend I took out the receipts for every repair and every piece of equipment I have ever purchased and installed on my 80 series all the way back to 1995. I put the receipts in date order and put them in a notebook by year. I plan to build an excel spreadsheet of all repairs and exactly what I have spent to build it to date. I am going to use this as my maintenance schedule going forward to ensure I don't forget any maintenance issues. I have been doing this in my head for years but at 270,000 miles and longer intervals between maintenance (it is no longer a daily driver) it becomes more difficult to remember the last time I performed a specific maintenance item.
I also plan to send photos and receipts of the build items (after market additions to make the truck more trail-worthy) to my insurance company to ensure those items are covered in the event the truck rolls over or is totaled in a street accident.
Once I have the maintenance spreadsheet built, I'll post it out on Mud for people to use for their rigs.
In addition, I repainted all of the hubcaps on my 80 with bedliner. I find that driving through high weeds strips the paint right off of them so I just use bedliner. It lasts longer than silver paint.
Both the bottom of my high lift jack and the holder for it on my Slee bumper were showing rust so I sanded both, cleaned them up and sprayed them with bedliner. I added a thin strip of rubber between them to eliminate futher friction and rusting.
I also plan to send photos and receipts of the build items (after market additions to make the truck more trail-worthy) to my insurance company to ensure those items are covered in the event the truck rolls over or is totaled in a street accident.
Once I have the maintenance spreadsheet built, I'll post it out on Mud for people to use for their rigs.
In addition, I repainted all of the hubcaps on my 80 with bedliner. I find that driving through high weeds strips the paint right off of them so I just use bedliner. It lasts longer than silver paint.
Both the bottom of my high lift jack and the holder for it on my Slee bumper were showing rust so I sanded both, cleaned them up and sprayed them with bedliner. I added a thin strip of rubber between them to eliminate futher friction and rusting.
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They get away with what ever price they can IMO.
South of Phoenix earlier today pictured below but the closes gas to my house is $2.05
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A year ago today, I was sitting in Marjan drinking a coffee and eating a croissant in one of those in Chandler, just having had the front end replaced by @Tools R Us and @inkpot.
I have to say I genuinely miss Arizona right now.
This weekend I continued to chase electrical gremlins.
Yesterday, I sat and stared at my rig, wondering why in the Wide World of Sports did I move to a place where working on your vehicle on a Sunday is Against The Law. That's right, kids, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, they can cite and fine you for working on your vehicle on a Sunday. At the very least, your neighbors will frown on it, and it's important to not annoy them, overly.
One consolation; it's Fasching, and yesterday was full of drunk revelers all over the place. Saw a girl dressed as a minion, wearing only blue overalls and yellow body paint. I have today off, so it's back to chasing my electrical fault, today.
Yesterday, I sat and stared at my rig, wondering why in the Wide World of Sports did I move to a place where working on your vehicle on a Sunday is Against The Law. That's right, kids, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, they can cite and fine you for working on your vehicle on a Sunday. At the very least, your neighbors will frown on it, and it's important to not annoy them, overly.
One consolation; it's Fasching, and yesterday was full of drunk revelers all over the place. Saw a girl dressed as a minion, wearing only blue overalls and yellow body paint. I have today off, so it's back to chasing my electrical fault, today.
Discovered this weird thing:
I have no clue how this box can detect glass being broken. Chances are, I can't just unplug it and discard it, right? Just like that magick box under the driver seat, the rig needs it to function, I bet. PITA.
Then I discovered this:
Turns out my attempts to stave off corrosion by constantly washing salt off with a power washer ended up with me filling up the quarter panels with water. So I've been driving around with them full of a salt water solution this winter. Bad words do not come close to describing my feelings right now.....
I have no clue how this box can detect glass being broken. Chances are, I can't just unplug it and discard it, right? Just like that magick box under the driver seat, the rig needs it to function, I bet. PITA.
Then I discovered this:
Turns out my attempts to stave off corrosion by constantly washing salt off with a power washer ended up with me filling up the quarter panels with water. So I've been driving around with them full of a salt water solution this winter. Bad words do not come close to describing my feelings right now.....
I was the only occupant and I escaped uninjured after 2.5 rolls that came a rest on the drivers side at the bottom of a steep, snow covered drop off the side of the mountain road which I slid off of. After the passenger side windows and windshield broke loose, wet soil found its way inside as it continued to roll. The RH rear cargo area side window popped out and lay on the ground unbroken which I find amusing. The thread I will be documenting the new build up in is titled "Reconsteuction after rollover". It won't happen soon or quickly. Thanks
Call it a "mod." You added a drainage hole to the rockers. My rig came to me with this mod already done. The rear doors were similar.
I'd like to get in there with some phosphoric acid spray to clean out the rust and then follow up with a sealer or some sort(haven't figured that out yet). I understand your frustration. Let us know if you come up with anything.
You know, since the Series 80 is a Body On Frame vehicle, I am thinking about rigging up some sort of quick drain that is bonded on with epoxy instead of welding in a new panel. With this light of metal, I've had very little success in welding in new steel panels; what usually happens is that the heat of the welding creates and spreads rust faster than if I'd just left it alone. I have an old Cherokee that had rust holes, but once I'd welded in new rockers, the rust spread like crazy.
The only reason I want to not leave it "as is" is because I love dirt backroads, and the dust can make the interior unliveable pretty rapidly.
BTW, I found out the stupid "broken glass detector" is completely superfluous, and can be discarded. I put it in my oddment tray "just in case", but getting rid of it just gave me better access to that area.
Much of this is in the Diesel section, but here are a few teaser shots for the photo hungry.
The wife and I loaded up and blasted down to Katemcy for opening weekend, spent most of the time watching my goofy buddies do goofy stuff on the rocks, but we did verify for a fact that the 80 is much more stable on rocks with the front sway bar disconnected. We came away with no new dings, scratched or dents too, a first for me but I had to exercise amazing (for me) restraint. And like a dork I left my camera in the room.
Much of this is in the Diesel section, but here are a few teaser shots for the photo hungry.
From the back side, can you see the gears that spin the trip meter?
Not when in the cluster. If the speedo is out, perhaps. I can check my spare tonight. My cluster is a hybrid of HDJ tacho, and all the rest is US market FZJ. The HDJ speedo was a whole different beast, with internal gears and mechanism for the timing-belt reminder.
Thanks @CycloSteve . I'm interested in the US FZJ info as I'd like to regain a trip meter.
Much of this is in the Diesel section, but here are a few teaser shots for the photo hungry.
Much appreciated!
Isn't the weekend, but I hauled five pallets of hard wood floor to the house.
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IIRC there is a small microphone behind the alarm LED panel in the dash.. this is wired to the glass break sensor and frankly is a pretty valuable addition to an alarm. My older VW was broken into three separate times where they knew it had the factory alarm and just broke a rear window and crawled in. With no door getting opened and no motion sensor the alarm never went off.
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Sweet shirt Joey
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New Cooper ATP by Dave Hunter, on FlickrBaby got some new shoes. So far everything I've heard about them is true, but I've driven about 35 miles so not much of a test yet.
New Cooper ATP by Dave Hunter, on FlickrEdited to correct picture links.
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